PThe damage done by hatred and prejudice based on race sexual orientation religion or gender runs very deep. The damage is often invisible but it simmers beneath the surface anyway. In IRace and PrayerI Malcolm Boyd and Chester Talton have collected poems prayers and prose that bring the anger and frustration to light and ultimately they hope to a place of reconciliation and healing.PPIRace and Prayer Iis divided into five sections Suffering and Anger Prejudice and Hatred Diversity Reconciliation and Healing and Growth in Understanding and Sharing. Contributors to this collection range in age from teenagers to the elderly and include men and women from a wide variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds all of whom speak honestly of their own experiences heartbreaks and hopes. Twelve cartoons from threetime Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Conrad editorial cartoonist at the Los Angeles Times add to the power of this collection.P